The Corner Brook Smart Cities Challenge

In 2018, Infrastructure Canada initiated the Smart Cities Challenge to encourage Canadian communities to adopt a smart cities approach to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology. One prize of up to $5 million dollars will be available to the winning community with a population under 30,000.

After multiple community consultations and an online survey to identify the issues concerning citizens, the City of Corner Brook submitted a proposal for a project that seeks to improve economic opportunities through smart technology. The Empowerment and Smart Market Projectfocuses on three primary projects address unemployment in the city: A smartphone app that acts as a “Digital Town Square” to bring people, ideas, and technology together, a product development “Maker Space” to bridge the gap between great ideas and the technology to bring it to life, and finally a “Smart Market” which will bring smart technology to traditional farmers markets. For more details on the initiative, please check out our proposal!